Easington Colliery Disaster Memorial
Easington Colliery Disaster Memorial
Easington Colliery Disaster Memorial
Easington Colliery Disaster Memorial
Easington Colliery Disaster Memorial
Easington Colliery Disaster Memorial
Easington Colliery Disaster Memorial
Easington Colliery Disaster Memorial
Easington Colliery Disaster Memorial
Easington Colliery Disaster Memorial
Easington Colliery Disaster Memorial

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On the 29th of May 1951 an explosion at Easington Colliery causing 83 deaths. The garden of remembrance is a memorial to the miners. The garden is rectangular and defined by a low beech hedge. To the east are two rectangular areas of lawns and a raised bed with rounded ends, the latter of which features a coal-cutting machine, painted red and mounted on short lengths of track. At the centre of the Garden are four raised flower beds of squared and coursed rubble. Rising from the south west bed is a cross formed from four miners’ picks. To the west are the two rectangular areas of communal graves, divided by stone borders into a total of 72 individual grave spaces. They are marked with raked stone tablets which record the name and age of death in Roman capitals.

Title

Easington Colliery Disaster Memorial

Date

1954

Medium

sandstone

Measurements

H 40 x W 40 x D 15 cm (E)

Accession number

SR8_LG_S014

Acquisition method

purchased by public subscription

Work type

Monument

Owner

Easington District Council

Custodian

Easington District Council

Work status

extant

Listing status

Grade II (England and Wales)

Unveiling date

29th May 1954

Listing date

25/08/16

Access

time restrictions apply

Access note

Cemetery opening times

Inscription description

on western screen: THIS TABLET IS ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF / EIGHTY THREE MEN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE / EASINGTON COLLIERY DISASTER / TWENTY NINTH MAY NINETEEN HUNDRED & FIFTY ONE / SEVENTY TWO GRAVES ARE IN THIS CEMETERY / THE FOLLOWING NINE MEN ARE BURIED ELSEWHERE / FREDERICK CARR · RICHARD CHAMPLEY · JOSEPH GODSMAN / ERNEST GOYNS · HERBERT GOYNS · JOHN HARKER / JOHN WM HENDERSON · STANLEY PEACEFUL · STEPHEN WILSON / ALSO TO THE MEMORY OF TWO BRAVE MEN / JOHN YOUNG WALLACE AND HENRY BURDESS / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN PERFORMANCE OF DUTIES / AS RESCUE WORKERS AND WHO ARE BURIED ELSEWHERE; on eastern screen: REMEMBER BEFORE GOD THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR / LIVES IN THE EASINGTON COLLIERY DISASTER IN / MAY NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY ONE TO WHOM / THIS GARDEN OF REMEMBRANCE IS DEDICATED

Located at

Easington Colliery Cemetery, Crawlaw Road, Easington Colliery

SR8 3NB

Situated at a crossing of paths towards the rear of Easington Colliery Cemetery, immediately to the rear of the war memorial.